Home and Game Highlights

Sorry for not making an update recently. The problem is not so much that nothing is happening (though life is rather uneventful recently, thank God), but that I just haven’t had the time to make updates. So here are the highlights from the weekend:

Life at Home:

-Colin earned an award from the library and a medal for being one of only four students to reach 100 AR points. How much you wanna bet the other 3 kids are 5th graders? XD

-Clara learned how to do the Tarutaru dance. She was running around, waving her arms and clapping and generally being a very happy toddler. I tried to record it on my camera, but it was being stupid and didn’t get a very good recording.

-DeAnn and I tore through the laundry, cleaned up the carpeted areas and vacuumed the upstairs and downstairs general areas. I’m hoping to borrow a coworker’s carpet shampooer soon and get some of the stains up. On top of all the work, we still got some playtime in.

Final Fantasy XI:

-Farming: I got a good chunk of farming time in the Labyrinth of Onzozo. I was leveling Voldai, farming Cockatrice for Cockatrice Meat and the odd chest key, and got the claim on several Mysticmaker Profblix pops. Stacks of meat sell for 12k, chests pop for 4-5k and Profblix drops items, mugged and loose gil totaling about 3k each time. The Moldavite Earring dropped a few times in the process, and I made several mages’ day by inviting them to party and letting them have the earring. All I wanted was the gil anyway – I already have the earring.

All the farming let me buy all the ancient magic, tier III scrolls, and elemental staves I’m going to need, excluding water. Water scrolls are going to be a pain in the ass, because only one regular mob in the game drops them, the drop rate is so ridiculously low, and there’s always someone camping them. I’m resigned to ignore the water element until I have money and time to burn camping the AH for them.

-BLM Army: Keri, Talon and I finished up our AF on BLM with a visit to the Toraimarai Canal and fights with the Magic Sludge. Yes, fights. Unlike just about every other quest in the game, you have to do this fight once for every person who needs it. Poor Talon faceplanted when Keri and I got Sleepga’d and he ran out of ninja tools that weren’t in toolbags. The other fights went smoother, and we all officially can put our BLM gear into storage if needed.

-Leveling BLM: We went out on Friday and Saturday night to level BLM. Friday was another round of Kuftal crabs, though considerably more crowded. Keri and I dinged 53 that night, and I learned Firaga II. Saturday we went out to King Ranperre’s Tomb and dinged 54, learned Quake and donned our shiny new gloves. We’ve caught up with Talon’s BLM and then some. Since I was about 1k ahead of Keri, and well ahead of Talon, I decided to pay Vrtra a visit. Needless to say, I got eated and homepointed.

Next leveling trip we’ll have 3xBLM, and that’s when the fun really starts. If we all start casting AM, we can easily carry chain 4’s and 5’s.

-Dynamis - San d'Oria: We had an awesome Dynamis - San d'Oria run. Three 100 coins and a ton of AF dropped, and we didn't wipe. And no, I didn't aggro the yard at the last second, though I got plenty of ribbing about it for last time. :P

I’m leading a sky hunt tomorrow night for the last few things we need. If all goes well, we will have a whopping 8 full Kirin sets to burn through. I’m hoping one drops an Osode with my name on it.